Anouk Verviers is an interdisciplinary artist, performer, and researcher whose work investigates systems of power, examining how they affect bodies and shape entanglements between ourselves, others, and matter around us. Working with bodies, wood, metal, clay, archives, and everyday objects, she creates installations, sculptures, videos, sound works, and performances.

Her recent work explores the exhaustion experienced by female and non-binary bodies, aiming to prefigure possible practices of care, kinship, and resistance. This research is rooted in her lived experience with chronic pain.

Verviers holds an MFA from Goldsmiths (2023), where she received the FRQSC full scholarship, the Chelsea Arts Club Award, the Goldsmiths Junior Fellowship, and the ACME Goldsmiths Award. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions, residencies, performances, community-based projects, and screenings across the United Kingdom, Canada, and Switzerland. In 2024, she was an artist-in-residence with ACME, received the Pauline-Desautels Prize, and was awarded a commission by Galerie UQO, supported by the CALQ. She is the initiator and a member of the Exhausted Feminist Hybrid Species reading group in London.

The Smith Residency is a residency for a visual artist and recent graduate (graduating from 2019 onwards) of either The Glasgow School of Art, Goldsmiths University of London, or University of the Arts London. We are grateful to Cove Park Patrons, the Smith family, for making this residency possible.